BRISBANE TIMES
FELICITY CALDWELL
One of the posters says: “Nazi youth organising in your area!” while another has an image of Adolf Hitler wearing aviator sunglasses with the words: “National socialism or nothing!”
The post was condemned by a Jewish community organisation, which fights anti-Semitism and racism in Australia.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said there was something deeply troubling and unsettling happening in Australia with a surge in the presence of white supremacists.
“We are profoundly shocked that such revolting stickers have infiltrated Toowoomba, sowing a message of prejudice and posing a threat to the values of inclusivity and respect we as a community cherish.
“We call on the good people of Toowoomba to say in one voice that there is absolutely no room for this poisonous conduct and rhetoric in Australia.”
Toowoomba mayor Paul Antonio said he was proud of how his community celebrated its different histories and backgrounds.
“There is no place for racist or hateful views or actions in a civil society,” he said.
“Rejoicing in our diversity shows a great sense of civic pride and maturity.
“I’m confident that outside fringe elements will find little, if any, succour in our region and be shown up as misinformed, misguided radicals.”
The Antipodean Resistance tweet from Toowoomba also attracted derision and criticism on social media.
Schools, TAFE and universities are on holidays this week.
The Antipodean Resistance’s website describes the group as an Australian National Socialist Youth Organisation, and it has targeted schools and universities.
“We’re the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for,” their website reads.
The group says their main activities are postering, stickering, hiking, camping, martial training and creating murals, with members likening themselves to Hitler Youth.
Images on their website depict “radicalisation camps” in Victoria and also Mount Tamborine in Queensland.
A quote on its website from last month, superimposed onto a photo of young men holding a swastika flag with their faces obscured, reads: “It’s not about the Jews you gas, but the friends you make on the way.”
The group has also targeted the same-sex marriage postal vote, and posted images from Tasmania, New South Wales and Melbourne in the past.